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Accidents Happenby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2024
A man questions his responsibilities when he goes to the toilet and unexpectedly gives birth to an egg.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Dollby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A mysterious elf doll arrives on Helen's front door step on Christmas Eve and weird stuff starts to happen.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Badlandsby  Pamela Schott
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2024
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life being the “perfect” everything — daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society — loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to make an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Chosenby  Paul Byrne
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2024
A troubled homicide cop must team up with his estranged father to stop a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces after three decades before he butchers his next victim - his Holiness the Pope.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Marilyn Comes To Niagara Fallsby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2025
A WWII war bride, about to leave her GI husband has a life-changing encounter with Marilyn Monroe filming on location.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Haunting of the Highwayby  Kudzai Zigarwi
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2025
On a deserted highway, a guilt-ridden man picks up a mysterious hitchhiker — only to discover she’s connected to the very tragedy he tried to forget, and this drive may be his only chance at redemption… or reckoning.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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No Take Backsby  William Walkerley
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2024
In the near future, where euthanasia is legal and the elderly burden the healthcare system, seniors are offered cash incentives to end their lives. When one senior accepts the money but has a sudden change of heart, he discovers that backing out is not an option.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Doppelgangersby  Paul Weidknecht
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2025
After the death of her mother, nine-year-old Melody begins seeing ghosts that resemble her family members.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Don't Let The Lights Go Outby  Bobbie Burgess-Tatum
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2025
A family's secret is about to be unlocked and it just may end the world.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Nightingale in Burkaby  Abhilash Mohan
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2025
Subaida, a spirited 10-year-old Afghan girl, dreams of music in a world that's trying to silence her. This poignant drama set in Kabul follows Subaida's journey as she discovers her passion for the rubab, a traditional Afghan musical instrument, against the backdrop of a society teetering on the edge of radical change.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Zaryaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2024
Two fishermen visit a secluded lake where they hope to catch the big one. Instead, they encounter a mysterious lake creature known as Zarya. (1 location, 3 actors. Top 20 Horror Short on Coverfly's The Red List. Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival & Nashville Film Festival screenwriting competitions.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Firewoodby  Gary A. Edwards
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2025
FIREWOOD - is a comedic short play small cast about an entertainer who gets fired twice from an ageist, racist, homophobic theme park run by a tyrannical, paranoid boss with a Napoleonic complex who makes money exploiting young girls and boys aspiring to be actors.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Lonely Onesby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
A young man controlled by common technology encounters an old man in a coffee shop who upends the assumption that old people are the lonely ones. One location, micro budget. Written by award-winning, produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Fabricby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2024
A young accountant’s decision to cut costs in a quaint village unravels its hidden connection to time itself, plunging the community into chaos.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Marcus and his Snowmanby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025
Marcus brings his snowman to life through Christmas Magic, based on love and Joy, but hateful and Miserable Hazel, the Winter Witch, wants to make everyone as miserable and vicious as she is. Can love and Joy triumph over hate and misery?

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Table for 3by  Michael Joseph
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2024
A brother and sister, entrenched in crime with their abusive uncle, make a routine stop at a diner. But when tempers flare, their ordinary night takes an unexpected turn

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Voicelessby  Janice Foster
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025
A woman, who can dream herself into crimes, becomes involved in the murder of a schizophrenic assassin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Yell'n'Tellby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
After witnessing a girl being bullied, a brave five-year-old uses his wise mother's practical but inventive advice to help solve his bullying dilemma. *2024 Best Unproduced Script Brightside Tavern Film Festival; Brightside Festival; Semi Finalist 2023 Dallas Shorts Note: Yell’n’Tell also in French and Spanish – Grita y Dilo*

Genre: Animation
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Black Boxby  William Walkerley
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2025
Tien shows up a Darius’ apartment with a small mysterious black box that will change their lives before the night is over.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Ghoul Partyby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2024
When his ultra-strict parents' home is invaded by so-called admirers a shy class genius summons a supernatural troupe of deadly bouncers to show the gate-crashers the fatal way home….

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Ghost Witnessby  Kudzai Zigarwi
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2025
When a murdered scientist’s ghost crashes his own trial, it’s up to a reluctant janitor with a strange gift to help deliver the most shocking courtroom testimony of the century.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Simonby  Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
When a teacher reads Edgar Allen Poe to her sixth graders on Halloween, she must find out why one student’s interest in the poem borders on obsession.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Back from the Deadby  Vic Jones
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
A tale of fond memories for two young boys in the Baltic mountains in the early fifties. One day the boys find out that their cherished mother figure in grave danger. They have a conflict: the only way to save her was in exchange for their prize possessions.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Painted Vengeanceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 25 May 2025
Painted Vengeance - A talented face painted is attacked by a gang of thugs, but when the devil gives him the chance to take revenge, it's an offer he can't refuse.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Mike The Robot and The Red Wizardby  Alexandru Albacan
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2025
A humanoid robot travels in time, lands in a thirteenth-century English village, and saves the villagers from an evil wizard.

Genre: Animation
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Musoby  Mr. Smith
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2024
A talented but struggling street clown discovers that the circus scout offering him his big break is a long-term patient at a psychiatric ward, forcing him to confront harsh realities and redefine his dreams of bringing joy to the world.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Stuckby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2024
A cell phone with his hand is stuck to a man's ear. After frantic attempts to loosen it fail, a mysterious 'Voice' comes on the line to help find a solution.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Burnby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
A story about an African American woman who survives a fire incident and fears to find love again. A romantic drama story which shows the power of love.

Genre: Romance
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Giftby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025
In 1977, a young man receives a camera that takes disturbing pictures. (1 location, 1 actor. Produced writer, see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Down to the Wireby  Dexter Williams
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2024
A defiant cop gets involved in a race against time to stop two escaped convicts who have taken hostages on a bus rigged to explode.

Genre: Action/Adventure
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Family Diamondby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2024
When John's elderly father is left on his doorstep due to unpaid private care, a desperate friend introduces him to a scientist with a serum that grows diamonds inside the human stomach.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Dreamby  Nancy Lydia Kimmel
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
Mark has been having dreams that are coming true. His psychiatrist may or may not be a killer. He starts to hear a voice which turns out to be his future self who is trying to warn him of impending danger.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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All This and Heaven, Tooby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Balloon Releaseby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 06 May 2024
Mourning the loss of their friend, a group goes live expressing their emotions towards the people who killed him, having no idea something more sinister is at hand.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Echoes of 1984by  Vladimir Vassilenko
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2025
On New Year’s Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Etiquette of a Necrophiliacby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2025
After uncovering his wife's infidelity, a man descends into a dark spiral, finding solace and control only in the macabre act of necrophilia, leading him down a path of irreversible perversion and escalating violence.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Rare Gemby  Paul Henry Landry
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2025
A young woman, abused by her mother, is drawn to a motherly real estate agent, but becomes trapped alone during an open house with a serial killer client and unleashes her veiled rage.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Screamby  STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2025
On a cold night, a woman goes to an abandoned field to release her emotions in a primal scream. On a cold night, her scream comes back to haunt her.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Girl In The Subwayby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Two policemen on patrol see a 12-year-old girl sleeping in the subway, when the policemen approached her to ask about her parents, they realized that she could not speak.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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